Microfilm in the Genealogy/North Carolina Room
All resources are 35mm film, except Soundex which is 16mm film
US FEDERAL CENSUS
North Carolina 1790 - 1930
North Carolina Soundex 1880 - 1930 (a phonic indexing system to these census years)
Georgia 1820 - 1880 with 1880 on CD
South Carolina 1790 - 1880 with 1880 on CD
Tennessee 1810 - 1880 with 1880 on CD
*Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont and Virginia 1790
Virginia 1890 - 1880 with 1880 on CD
West Virginia 1870 - 1880 with 1880 on CD
COURT RECORDS
BUNCOMBE COUNTY, NC
*Marriage Bonds 1791-1868
*Marriage Licenses 1881-1885
*Marriage Register - Male
*Minutes, Board of Education 1881-1966
*Index to Vital Statistics: Deaths 1913-1938
CATAWBA COUNTY, NC
*Records of Accounts and Inventories 1869 - 1883
* Record of executors, administrators, and guardians 1868 - 1904
*General Index to Administrators, Executors, and Guardians 1843-1966
*Inventories of Estates and Sales
*Records of Settlements Vol. 1 1868-1865
*Records of Accounts 1883-1893
*Record of Estates 1843-1862
*Record of Estates 1861-1868
*Record of Dowers 1871-1948
Record of Deeds
General Index to Real Estate Conveyances: Grantees A-Z 1837 - 1926 (2 rolls)
SUPERIOR COURT
*Equity Minutes Docket 1843-1868
*Court Minutes 1843-1869
*Inventory Docket 1861-1868
*Orders and Decrees 1868-1889
*Index to Will: Devisees 1843-1966
*Index to Orders and Decrees: Defendants A-Z 1868-1966
*Index to Orders and Decrees: Plaintiff A-Z 1868-1966
*Record of Deeds 1866-18870
*List of Taxables 1857-1868
*Levies on Land 1843-1868
*Marriage Records: Black 1867-1872
*Freedmen's Marriage Records 1868
*Marriage Records 1851-1901; 1908-1938
*Record of Settlements Vol. 1 1868-1885
*Division of Land & Dowers 1871-1948
*Index to Wills: Devisees 1843-1960
*Index to Wills: Devisors 1843-1860
*Tax Scrolls 1869, 1872-1878
*Minutes of Board of Catawba County Commissioners 1868-1903
LINCOLN COUNTY, NC
COURT RECORDS
*Guardian Bonds 1868-1925
*Record of Settlements Vol. 1&2 1869-1904
*Index to Accounts & Settlements 1869-1904
*Marriage Bonds Vol. A (Ba - Bou) 1779-1868
*Marriage Records 1851-1869
*Marriage Register A-Z 1869-1971
Record of Wills Vols. 1-3 1772-1968; 1824-1869
*Minutes, Board of Lincoln County Commissioners 1870-1896 and Board of Education 1922-1949
Record of Deeds Vol. 1 1769-1774
*Record of Deeds Vol. 2 1774-1784
*Record of Deeds 1785-1793
*Record of Deeds 1793-1800
*Record of Deeds 1800-1807
*Record of Deeds 1803-1805; 1809-1813
*Record of Deeds 1812-1817
*Record of Deeds Vols. 29 & 30 1819-1824
*Record of Deeds Vols. 31, 31A-32 1824-1828
*Record of Deeds Vols. 33 & 34 1828-1833
*Record of Deeds Vols. 35 & 36 1833-1836
*Record of Deeds Vols. 37 & 38 1837-1842
*Record of Deeds Vols. 39 & 40 1841-1846
*Record of Deeds Vols. 41 & 42 1843-1856
*Record of Deeds Vols. 43 & 44 1856-1863
*Record of Deeds Vol. 45 1863-1869
*Index to Orders & Decrees; Special Proceedings;
Adoptions, & Lunacy: Defendant 1868-1968
*Index to Orders & Decrees; Special Proceedings;
Adoptions, and Lunacy: plaintiff 1868-1968
*Superior Court Orders & Decrees Vol. 1 & 2 1868-1880
*Land Entries 1783-1795
*Land Grants Vols. 1-3 1779-1797
*Land Grants 1763-1813; 1770-1794; 1782-1807
*Court Minutes 1779-1782
*Court Minutes 1781-1813
*Court Minutes 1813-1824
*Court Minutes 1824-1838
*Minutes, Court of Equity 1816-1841
*Administrators Bonds 1868-1913
*Index to Grants: Grantees 1779-1840
*Land Grants Vols. 6 & 7 1794-1933
*Land Grants 1782-1807 and Procession of Lands 1814-1834
*County Court Minutes 1838-1861
*County Court Minutes 1861-1868
*Superior Court Minutes 1842-1876
*Real Estate Conveyances: Grantors 1769-1907
*Real Estate Conveyances: Grantees 1769-1907
Record of Accounts 1868-1876; 1876-1891 (two rolls)
*Appointment of Inventories & Accounts of Estates 1831-1868
*Appointment of Executors 1869-1908; 1924-1964
TRYON COUNTY, NC
*Record of Deeds 1771-1772; 1774; 1778-1779
*Record of Deeds 1769-1778
*Court Minutes 1769-1782 includes Lincoln Co Court Minutes 1774-1782
NORTH CAROLINA STATE
Draft Records: WWI (two rolls)
Post Office Site Locations: 1837-1950 for Buncombe, Burke, Catawba, Chatham, Cherokee, Clay, Lincoln, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mecklenburg, Mitchell, Montgomery, Rockingham, Rowan, Rutherford (5 rolls)
Warrants, Plats, etc.: Catawba; Granville; Green, Graham
CHURCH RECORDS
Maiden, NC: Mt. Ruhama Baptist Church Minutes & Rolls 1880-1946 & 1954-1968Newton, NC: St. James Lutheran Church (4 rolls)
Congressional & Council Minutes 1885-1911
Treasurer's Reports 1897-1914
Congressional Minutes 1925-1960
Council Minutes 1955-1960
LCW Minutes 1971-1980
Luther League Minutes 1930-1941; 1955-1968
Parrish Register 1867-1980
TENNESSEE STATE
*Vital Statistics: Deaths 1919-1927
*Blount County Marriages 1795-1898
*Cocke County Vital Statistics 1925-1938
*Cooke County Marriages February 1877-October 1884
*Sevier County Inventory of Estates March 1856-August 1896
*Sevier County Vital Statistics May 1881-Feburary 1882
*Sevier County Marriages Vols. 1-5 1856-1890 (two rolls)
NEWSPAPERS
ASHEVILLE
Asheville Citizen 21April1885 - 31August1855;
September 1886-30September 1887
HICKORY
The Daily Press 5October 1927-1876
The Hickory Democrat 19July1906 - 12December1907
2January1908 - 30December1909
6January1910 - 21December1911
4January1912 - 18December1913
8January1914 - 23December1915
Piedmont Press 9October1873-14August1886
Western Carolinian 2July1880 - 11November 1887
Press & Carolinian 17November 1887 - 20December 1888
3January1889 - 26December1889
2January1890 - 25December1890
8January1891 - 24December1891
7January1892 - 22December1892
5January1893 - 21December1893
4January1894 - 27December1894
10January1895 - 26December1895
2January1896 - 24December1896
The Hickory Press 7January1897 - 11October1980 (two rolls)
Times-Mercury 22March1899 - 25December1912 (6 rolls)
NEWTON
Newton Enterprise 5Feburary1879 - 22December1893 (4 rolls)
NATIVE AMERICAN
*Five Civilized Tribes (4 rolls) choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek, Seminole
*Cherokee Index to Census 1896
*Cherokee & Delaware Census & Index 1867
*Delaware, Shawnee & Cherokee (NC) Lists 1867-1881
*Cherokee Nation Index $15.00 Payment 1912
*Creek Old Settlers Roll 1857 & Payroll 1857-1859
*Chickasaw Census 1897 & Annuity Rolls 1878 & Payroll 1893
*Creek Nation Authenticated Tribal Roll 1890
*Creek Nation Applications to the Creek Commission for Citizenship 1896-1900 Creek Census (3 rolls)
SPECIAL CENSUS
1880 Tulalep & Madison Reservations
1880 Swinhomish, Muckleshoot, Lummil
1880 Yakama Reservation
1880 Standing Rock Reservation
1880 Round Valley Reservation
Seminole Applications for Enrollment (3 rolls)
Creek Applications for Enrollment (30 rolls)
SOUTH CAROLINA
Tax Returns 1783-1800
*Roll 1: Begins District East of the Wateree 1783
Ends St. Andrew's Parish 1787
*Roll 2: Begins St. Bartholomew's Parish 1787
` Ends Through Winston County 1800